Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-31
Of GENERAL lNTEREsr.

Will not raise tobacco this year.
"A neighbor sent US inssome young
pig and we found some bread tickets
on the street. We are in clover, sure
AericO MO- Ledger.
A girl was arrested in New York
| for stealing the watch and jewelry OF
friend. and the fact was developed
that she had pawned them to get
money to bury her mother.-M =.
Sun.
"A Washington (Ga-) man recently
fired into a covey OF cartridges that
were huddled up in Il bunch on the
ground and killed eleven of them, and
as the twelfth bird rose he killed that
also.-Chica9o Herald.
DIR. Mary Walker got among +
group of Texans near the Capitol az
Washington the other day, and was
highly Disguised when one of them
asked in an audible tone where ''that
cowboy kid came from.-M y
Graphic.
"A scientific journal states that 'taII
modern high explosives are now almost
universally exploded by the agency of
electricity" A Jersey City paper says
coal oil is still exploded by the ageScy'
of the cook-stove ana the hired girl,
which is an important exception.
"A Connecticut jeweler has very
ingenious demagnetizing machine
Watches which have been magneizeV
by being placed IN close proximity to-
electric batteries can be restored to-
| their normal state in few seconds bye
means of this machine.-HGrttord POST
"A man who died near Springfield,
Mass, few days ago bequeathed his Q
horse, cat, cow and fowls to the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails, and also two thousand dollars,
STIMULATING that the society should take
| good care of the animals until they
| died.
The present cost OF operating the
railways of this country by steam is
$500, 900. 900, but to transport the same
tonnage, using men and horses, would
cost Sill ,306, 100000. That is to say
return to old methods would render
commerce practically impossible.-BOsS
ton Herald.
IL don't mind giving up my neck
ties before they're half worn out, said
O society young man, because they
look pretty in crazy-quilts. But I'm
going to draw the line on my married
lady friends hereafter'@ ''WAy?:'
asked n friend. The last lot of scarfs
1 gave TO Mrs. - her husband has
been wearing ever since. Do you
blame meP"-BufaLo Courier.
Miss Matte Smith, of West Lsue
rens. N. Y, was very i'll, and Mrs. Ed
wards, who has a reputation as faith
healer, was called to pray over her
After the praying Mrs. Edwards said ?
that Miss Smith must go out for ride
The invalid's friends objected, but S8eo
went, though suffering great pain
| When she returned she went back to-
her bed, and not long afterward died
Buffalo Express.
e. B. Davis, while putting up teIe-
phone wires in Detroit, seized work
ing wire and received shock tha3
knocked him from the pole to an adj
| joining roof. He was not harmed by
the fall, but found that the wire had
burned groove across The palm of his
hand clear to the bone. Not drop of
blood was drawn, and on the sides Of @
the groove the flesh was scared. The
hand gave him no pain and he was at
work next day.
Captain Porter says that the mock
fng-birds of Dade County. Fla, do not
sing. He has bought some Leon
County songsters to learn the naughty
birds of his section to sing. Another
strange thing about Dade County Is
hat 81 20 in. ha nfr-
People there generally travel by water
or ride along the beach or through the
woods. The forest trees are all tropi-
| cal and different from other sections Of
the State.-AtEGntG Constitution.
The Washington swells are de-
| scribed as extravagant this season in
| the matter of OvercOats. A CORES
pendent saw a half dozen whose over
coats must have cost an aggregate OF
five hundred dollars chatting together
in hotel recently. But this is nothing,
comparatively. There are overcoats
which have cost one thousand dollars.
and one of the diplomats has an over
coat of sealskin which would make
three good-sized ladies' sacques.
-Reunno Caulker, full-bloodeC.
jet-black African Prince, sailed recent
" from New York for the west coast of
Africa, to there resume sway over such
of his subjects as have not been carried
away into slavery by rival tribes and
Portuguese traders. With him went -
young lady who became smitten with q
Caulker's princely charms while' he
was attending the Dayton co. college
The girls name was Ella Shaffer. and
when the Prince threw his fhrnne and